I'm a huge believer in story being this invisible scaffolding that no one ever recognizes or realizes is actually making the audience engaged in what's going on. There is no formula for it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.
I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish.
In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.
All you have to do is just believe in what's there; then, the audience will, too.
As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.
I always like to have faith that an audience will suspend their disbelief, if you present it to them in the right way. I find it peculiar when people scoff at one bold idea, and yet they'll then turn over and watch a man travel through time in a police phone box. I think it's just how you present the idea.
I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.
Great visual effects serve story and character and in doing so, are, by their very definition, invisible.
If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.
I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part.